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Over the past few weeks, we've been talking about how best to manage the current state of work and what companies will need to do in the near and not-too-distant future to adjust to post-pandemic reality. As expected, our readers had some opinions on these topics, too—ranging from insightful to inciteful.
So, in the interest of better surfacing the wisdom of our particular crowd, I've curated some of the thoughts of the Ars community on the topics of working better from home and what our shared experiences have taught us about the future of collaboration technology and the future nature of the corporate office. As always, we hope you'll share additional wisdom in the comments here, as they may guide some future coverage on issues related to the realities of future work.
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Aside from responding with protests of post-traumatic stress after I mentioned Lotus Notes in our article on the future of collaboration, our readers had some on-point thoughts on the current strengths and weaknesses of collaboration technology—particularly in the face of current circumstances. And one of the problems is collaborating across companies effectively.
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Other readers noted that work-from-home wasn't an option for them, but only because of management's whims. RCook wrote that his employer had brought everyone back into the office, "partly because we're located in Iowa where the Pandemic didn't happen according to our Governor and partly because the company President has some stupid control issues."
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However, the company president is working from home. And while RCook "made sure the IT infrastructure was ready and capable of handling the [work-from-home] VPN load" during the company's initial lockdown, "I was actually asked at one point how management could effectively spy on employees to gauge productivity."
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday August 26 2020, @03:32PM (2 children)
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Trump could have put scientists and doctors in charge, and what they say goes. No politics. Bite the bullet. Get things under control before it killed so many people, and before it got out of control.
This is not about politics. It's about science and medicine. A virus doesn't care about your politics or what Fox News says.
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Trump could have injected or drank bleach, and put UV light inside the body.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 26 2020, @04:19PM (1 child)
You're wrong. Trump did consult with doctors, scientists, medical workers, and they all disagreed with each other. There's still a wide-range of opinions and "facts" around COVID-19. Some scientists say the tests are not 100% accurate. Someone can be infected, contagious, and test negative.
It doesn't have to be a major issue like COVID-19 to see how people's egos still run amok, including scientists and doctors. That's where government comes in, right? Or did you expect Trump to abdicate and appoint Fauci as president? Or maybe YOU? Even in a corporation there's some kind of political (power) structure, right? Maybe Trump was ill-advised. Maybe he trusted the wrong people. Maybe they all hate him and tried to set him up to fail. Maybe, just maybe, it was and still is a complex problem that we're still learning about, how to deal with it, what to do and not do. Hindsight is 20/20.
From the start of the reports of COVID-19 people have relentlessly attacked Trump. How about putting all that time and energy into HELPING? With 1/2 of the nation wasting time mocking, ridiculing, and generally attacking Trump, tearing him down, what do you expect? Did you conveniently forget the impeachment? Do you expect someone to fork into both a leader and defending himself? People have a right to disagree with someone, including presidents, but at some point the disagreement, like the rioting, gets in the way of anyone trying to get anything done. There are more positive solutions to problems. Just because you don't like the paint color of your house you don't burn it down, right? Or maybe you do- your types certainly do. And then go burn down the paint factories too.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday August 26 2020, @05:11PM
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